May First Friday listings

LORI STENBERG & CANDY BEHRENDS

JAHC Gallery

Juneau Arts & Culture Center

Reception: 4:30–7 p.m.

Stenberg and Behrends will display their painting and silk painting.

 

JUNEAU BROADSIDES

KTOO

360 Egan Drive

Reception: 4:30 – 7 p.m.

Local poets and artists team up to create Juneau art for Juneauites. Find out more page 13.

 

MOLLY BRIGGS & MIRCEA BROWN, PHOTOGRAPHERS

Coppa

917 Glacier Ave #102

4 p.m. – 6 p.m.

Molly and Mircea are displaying photographs of Life on the Water while introducing the synopsis of their non-verbal documentary feature film, Everything Connects. Their film is about the ecosystem in Southeast Alaska; they look forward to sharing photos and starting a conversation about their endeavor.

 

FEATURED ARTISTS RHONDA BUTLER, RENEE CULP, AND SELENA BEIERLY

Walter Soboleff Building

105 S. Seward St.

Reception: 4:30-8 pm

Sealaska Heritage Institute and the Sealaska Heritage Store will host featured artists Rhonda Butler, Renee Culp, and Selena Beierly at the Walter Soboleff Building. During the First Friday reception, SHI will offer free admission to the clan house, Shuká Hít.

 

FEATURED ARTIST: GRACE COENRAAD

The Canvas Community Art Studio & Gallery

223 Seward St.

Reception: 4:30-7 p.m.

Local artist Grace Coenraad works in a variety of mediums — ink, graphite, paint, ceramic — and this collection will represent her range of style and vision. Learn more at http://canvasarts.org/portfolio-item/grace-coenraad/.

 

A CELEBRATION OF LIGHT, LAND AND WATER

Sketch Studio

122 Front Street

4:30 – 7 p.m.

Photographer Brandon Hauser and oil painter MK MacNaughton collaborate to create works inspired by one another and the natural world. One night reception and show. Join the artists in celebrating adventures in art and life.

 

LOUISE KUNTZ TADDA, POTTERY ARTIST

Annie Kaill’s

244 Front St.

Reception: 4:30-7 p.m.

The store’s featured artist for May will be Louise Kuntz Tadda. Louise will be showing a collection of her original, handmade pottery – each piece is a work of art.

 

MK MACNAUGHTON

The Rookery Cafe

111 Seward St.

Reception: 4-8 p.m.

The Rookery will host a collection of oil paintings featuring Southeast landscapes by MK MacNaughton during May.

 

FEATURED ARTIST: BARB MITCHELL

After 35 years in Juneau, fiber artist and retired teacher Barb Mitchell is moving to Washington state. Many of her pieces will be on sale and she will have a new collection of cowl scarves for summer. She hopes “all the families and friends who have enriched her 35 years here will drop by so she can thank them and say goodbye,” according to an email from the gallery.

Juneau Artists Gallery

175 S. Franklin St.

Reception: 4:30-7 p.m.

 

SILVER JEWELRY BY ALASKAN ARTIST LISA MCCORMICK, CARIBOU CROSSINGS 19TH SUMMER SEASON RE-OPENING PARTY

Caribou Crossings

387 S. Franklin St. (in the yellow building across from dirt lot)

12-8 p.m.

Caribou Crossings will be featuring Lisa McCormick’s newest handcrafted silver jewelry collection for this season. The pendants, earrings and bracelets each tell our individual “story” of where we live surrounded by mountains and water. Also showcased in Caribou Crossings are 60 Alaskan artists from all over the state. Come on in to explore all the exciting handmade creations.

 

SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED

Kindred Post

145 S. Franklin St.

Reception: 4:30-7 p.m.

Behind on your correspondence? Disaffected with texting? Elsie Coppens, the 11-year-old founder and CEO of Mountain Goat Notes, is here to help, with custom letter-writing sure to delight any recipient. On First Friday this latter-day Cyrano de Bergerac will be working her pen for free, with some inspirational backup on baritone ukulele by Julie Coppens, a.k.a. Elsie’s mom. Bring your address book and get signed, sealed, and delivered — or just sing along.

 

FEATURED ARTIST: DEVON BLUE

The Taqueria

245 Marine Way

7 -10 p.m.

As part of the High Tide Featured Artists Series, tattoo artist Devon Blue will show some of his original artwork at the Taqueria. Limited edition merchandise including apparel, patches, stickers, and prints will be for sale.

There will also be some live music from Devon’s band, “Slim Grim & The Reaper Bros,” at the event. After the gallery walk Slim Grim & The Reaper Bros. will be having a EP release party at the Rendezvous, where they will play an hour-long set.

This will be a big weekend for Devon, especially since shortly after the show this life-long Juneauite will be moving down south to pursue his career as a Tattoo Artist. He currently works at High Tide Tattoo.

 

“NEW WORKS” BY DAVID WOODIE

Juneau-Douglas City Museum

Fourth and Main streets

Juneau artist David Woodie combines dream images, landscape and figures in unique compositions to form narrative paintings that speak to his life as a commercial fisherman, logger, and artist.

 

LINDA WRIGHT

Hearthside Books

Nugget Mall

8745 Glacier Hwy # 245

6-7 p.m.

Children’s author Linda Wright is visiting from Texas. She will be reading and signing.

 

JAN & JOHN STRALEY Hearthside Books

Downtown

254 Front Street

First Friday booksigning: 5-7 p.m.

Sitka scientist and author Jan Straley, with husband, author John Straley, will be signing books. The main focus is on the latest book: “Ed Ricketts from Cannery Row to Sitka, Alaska.” Ricketts was a scientist, an author, and the inspiration for the character of “Doc” in John Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row.”

 

TERI JO HEDMAN

Heritage Cafe

Seward and Front Streets

Reception: 5-8 p.m.

Teri Jo’s ideas come from the wildlife she sees in her travels and the scenery that surrounds them. Once the idea is formed, she thinks in terms of flat shapes, line, white spaces, repetition, and color in putting the piece into final form. There is a crispness and clarity to her work.

 

STUDIO OF PORTRAIT DOLL ARTIST MARY ELLEN FRANK

Aunt Claudia’s Dolls museum

114 S Franklin Suite 105, above Hearthside Books

Open hours: 2-7 p.m. Friday, 12-5 p.m. Saturday

Latest projects and new work on local notables carved in wood and clad in miniature reproductions of their favorite duds. New and newly configured displays in the museum of dolls, toys and miniatures.

 

GLACIER SALT CAVE AND SPA

917 Glacier Ave. #101

4:30-7 p.m.

Glacier Salt Cave & Spa will have Himalayan salt grinders and shakers for $7.99, and half price halo therapy sessions.

 

FREE YOGA LED BY CAROL RACE

Rainforest Yoga

Emporium Mall, above Gold Town Theatre

5:15-6:15 p.m.

Carol Race will lead an hour of free yoga, offering a rejuvenating combination of yoga postures refined by alignment, breath work and relaxation. You will build a greater capacity for vitality as you increase strength, flexibility and balance. All are welcome.